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Dharma Bum
by Alan Catlin
He drank
life from
easy chug
a mug
bottles
throwing
the empties
off the porch
onto the over
grown lawn
lighting
white filter
tipped cigars
with stick
matches he
struck on
the peeling
railing paint or
on the sagging
floor boards
when the railing
was too far
away to reach
listening to
ball games
in the out
of tune radio
plugged into
the frayed
extension cord
the wife and
kiddies going
by without
comment one
way or the other
about what might
be happening in
his life like
he was some kind
of animated lawn
ornament the weeds
hadn�t gotten
to yet.
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Dharma Bum is copyright 1998 by Alan Catlin